🃏 Taden | A Pawn's Creations

A performer duelist hailing from Paradise's Ruins' Capital, who utilizes playing cards-like as her main arsenal. Despite being officially known as a Duelist, she tends to work as an independent Weaponmaker more—that some people forget she's capable of duelling too.

But not like she would bother to correct or comment on her reputation, anyway. To some, she's too focused in her world and niche that she appeared detached from everything else. An odd, strange wildcard of a duelist, rumored to be formerly sponsored by a family of famed medical researchers, now sponsored by the same machinery company as Vadios'.

At some point during her career, she unexpectedly becomes the captain of the Team Tempest.

She currently resides in Ark's apartment.

Relationships

Ellianna

Relationship: Elder sister

An estranged elder sister. Their reunion happened to involve both of them deciding to stay at Ark's apartment.

Though, unlike the rest of her family who see Ellianna as a disgrace, Taden doesn't habor any disdain towards her. Taden has always respected Ellianna, even if Ellianna had betrayed their family. She knew she had a good reason to betray them, but at the same time, she felt a certain sense of resentment towards her—something akin to envy.

DJ Misery

Relationship: Neighbor

They get along pretty well outside Misery's work hours. The type to drink together and discuss existential stuff at 6 A.M. (they're going to head to sleep sometime soon).

Ark

Relationship: Host

Taden is very grateful and appreciative of Ark, despite being intimidated by her at times.

Team Tempest

Her official duelist team! They're pretty much like a small family to her.

Vadios

Relationship: Partner ❤️

Taden is very intimidated by him at first, considering Vadios' status as a famed performer duelist. But they eventually grew close enough to be on friendly terms. Overall, they're pretty caring about the other as co-workers. (And Vadios did care enough about her to travel all the way to Ark's apartment to get her back to their company.)

At some point, he joined her as the co-captain of the Team Tempest, and they eventually started dating.

More about their relationship can be read here!

Arine

Relationship: Teammate

A member of the Team Tempest.

Cobalt

Relationship: Teammate

A member of the Team Tempest.

Sol

Relationship: Teammate

A member of the Team Tempest.

Rai

Relationship: Teammate

A member of the Team Tempest.

Team Nimbus

A rival team, of sorts? Taden's cool with all members there. Doesn't really see them as a competition outside of duelling matters.

Luna

Relationship: Neighbors

One of her neighbors, now that she's moved to Ark's apartment!

Taden finds Luna much more organized/hardworking/dedicated than her, to the point of respect/admiration.

Rayne

Relationship: Friends???

That one famous duelist. Sure, they graduated together from the same school, but Taden often finds herself too intimidated to talk to her.

Although, after Taden became Team Tempest's captain, she starts to realize Rayne is just... like that.

Aes

Relationship: Fellow Duelist

Jack

Relationship: Fellow Duelist

Lore

loose timeline

childhood stuff (ellianna defecting from her family happens at this point)
lived alone in her old apartment
became a performer duelist with her family sponsoring her. knew vadios at some point
was sent by her family to check on ark, got into an accident, then got a new home in ark's apartment. also reunion with ellianna bc both of them moved into the same apartment
vadios found her at ark's apartment, got into family/sponsor-related issues, changed sponsors to vadios' family company, then her duelist career resumed (with taden living in ark's apartment instead)
formed team tempest

Stories

An Abandoned Ark: "How Taden gets a new house to stay at", the story.
snippets ft. Vadios and Taden: Assorted snippet collection, featuring Vadios and Taden (if it isn't obvious, I ship these two).
The Performer Duelists' Shenanigans: Taden's time as a Performer Duelist, featuring her interacting with other fellow duelists.
- Team Tempest's Tournament Chat: The duelists of Team Tempest gather at their workplace in the morning, chatting away and talking about the approaching tournament event.

Infodump

overall a very reserved person. scaredy cat
she was first found unconscious somewhere nearby the apartment, then ark brought her to the apartment, then she appeared to have some sort of memory loss so she got to stay there peacefully for a while
- that is, until vadios , came to the apartment to get her back to their workplace (since she basically went missing for a while)
not really a famous performer duelist on her own, though she's more focused on developing the tech to pull out flashy moves
5'5

Trivia

associated with the joker card.
has an expy of her, named Gnosis, who's a minor god in the pantheon realm
- canon timeline-wise, Taden being born in Paradise's Ruins happens way later than Gnosis popping into existence

Personality-related trivias

takes a bit to develop a crush/fall in love, but realizes it pretty quickly and will probably go "...fuck. oh fuck."

Lifestyle-related Trivias

she's like the 7th resident of ark's apartment (including ark herself)
can't drive for shit. either takes train to work (with luna) or vadios picks her up to work
sleeps with a pillow-like bear plushie she got from vadios. will pack it in her bag whenever she knows she has to sleep somewhere else. finds it more pleasant to fall asleep with it nearby
- would love to hoard more plushies but she'll need to get a place to keep them all. plus she used to keep moving her home around too, so she usually gives away her old plushies
doesn't really have the motivation to decorate her room in ark's place. surprisingly plain room.
her cooking skill is decent. not the best chef but you wont die eating her food

Gallery

If you need to colorpick her, use the last two images to colorpick from.
Feel free to make her ahoge/cowlick emote.
Doesn't have a good eyesight, so try to keep glasses or a mask on her 24/7 unless she's showering or sleeping or something.
Taden mainly has 3 outfits/designs, as seen below.
1. the "outside work hours" outfit. has a mask on, and mostly wears down-to-earth all-black outfits.
2. the "kinda outside work hours, but she's prepared to change her outfit for the duel" outfit. has a tattoo on her face. has jester-y outfit ready but still wears her black hoodie to appear somewhat lowkey
3. the "jester" outfit. self-explanationatory. has her jester hat + mask on and all.

taden in different outfits/appearances/attires

Q: Do you think your team's captain and the co-captain have something going on? / Cobalt (oblivious): I guess they're friends? / Arine (notices they have some tension going on): They look pretty close? I think? / Rai (notices it too): Why don't you ask them yourself? / Sol (wouldn't be surprised if they're in a relationship): Yeah?

Raine (and Team Nimbus) and Vadios (and Team Tempest)

Taden and Vadios, but role/aesthetic swapped

Taden and Vadios, referenced from @Kim_Gilgyu's kissing pose reference

Warning

Two characters making out with tongue and all. Potentially suggestive.

Taden and Vadios plushie ft. Vadios himself

Anything that's not me drawing something new from the scratch goes here.

My Ship in Five Minutes ft. Taden and Vadios

Warning

Two characters making out with tongue and all. Potentially suggestive.

from left to right, top to bottom: Vadios, Taden, Aes, Jack, Rai, Cobalt, Rayne, Sol, Luna

A gallery dedicated to physical prints/standees/keychains/you know the deal. If I can pick them up with my hand they all go here.

This tab is specifically for NSFW artworks (or any other artworks that will need content warnings) I've created of Taden (that will often feature other characters, like Vadios). These are meant for mature audience!

Please read the warnings below the images, before deciding whether to click the image or not!